Bio of Wear, John (b.1837) Wabasha Co., MN
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Wear, John, proprietor of Trout Glen Farm, Mount Pleasant, is a son of
English parents, Robert and Mary (Lawton) Wear, and was born in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 6, 1837. When he was seven years old his
father moved to Schellsburg, Wisconsin, and engaged in mining. In 1850 he
bought a farm in Jo Davies county, Illinois, and from that time the life
of our subject has been passed on a farm. His only educational facilities
outside of self-culture were supplied by six months in the common school
after he was thirteen years old. On reaching the age of fifteen he left
the home farm, where his parents still reside, and has ever since cared
for himself. In 1854 he came to Wacouta, on Lake Pepin, and soon after
took up land on section 32, in the town of Florence, about four miles west
of his present home. This claim was tilled by him until 1868, when he went
to Lake City. For two years he engaged in the flour and feed trade there.
He settled on his present farm (the northwest quarter of section 1) in
1877. Until quite recently he has engaged almost exclusively in
grain-raising, but is now turning his attention to breeding Jersey cattle
and sheep. At this writing (March, 1884) he is preparing to erect a
private creamery on the large spring near his door. This spring supplies
abundant water for driving churn, grindstone, etc., and is inhabited by
trout. In the summer of 1883 the butter-producing powers of a
three-fourths grade Jersey cow on Mr. Wear's farm was tested by a
committee consisting of the editor of the Lake City "Sentinel;" and the
county superintendent of schools. For a week these gentlemen visited Trout
Glen Farm each day, and weighed the milk, cream and butter from this
animal. At the end of that period the butter produced at fourteen sittings
on the milking-stool was found to weigh twenty-seven and one-fourth
pounds. The weight of the milk was two hundred and ninety-three pounds.
This is related as an example of the results easily attainable in
Minnesota, with good water, pasturage and the right kind of cows. Mr. Wear
is a member of the Masonic lodge and chapter at Lake City; is a consistent
republican, and both himself and wife joined a Presbyterian church in
Goodhue county, and still cherish the faith of that sect. During his
residence in Florence Mr. Wear served as town supervisor. His marriage
occurred in 1857, the bride being Miss Emily, daughter of Joseph Saunders
and Eliza (Owen) Pingrey, of Vermont and New York. Mrs. Wear was born near
Madison, Indiana, in 1838. No children having been given this couple, they
adopted a daughter, christened Minnie.